There is a second-married couple in the village (according to generation, I should call it uncle and aunt), the old uncle is middle-aged and widowed with two sons, he is quite old, and the aunt is middle-aged and widowed with a son. After being introduced to a blind date, both of them were widowed and miserable, and they fell in love with each other at first sight, so they quickly got married and lived together.
Because it is a second marriage, the family is also poor, so there is no big deal, after receiving the certificate, a courtyard of people gathered together to have a lively meal, even if it is officially married.
After getting married, my aunt moved in with her uncle with her son, and my uncle's two sons were older and had dropped out of school to work. My aunt's son was a little young and did well in school, so my aunt had been supporting her son's education, and when she got married, her son was already in high school.
The people in the village said that their life would not be peaceful, and they had their own calculations for the second marriage, and the two sons of the old uncle's family were not married at that time, so they probably wanted to find an old wife for his father to take care of the family and his father. As for the aunt, the intention is obvious, to find someone to help her son go to college. The children are rarely at home, and the old couple are forty or fifty years old, so they live on their own, and their lives are quite clean.
Slowly, the contradiction came to the fore. First of all, during the New Year's holidays, the two sons of the uncle's family don't go home much, and even if they go home, they don't give money to their uncle. You must know that in the past, these two brothers went out to work and came back every year to get money for their father to buy good cigarettes and wine, and they were well-known filial children in the village. Everyone doesn't talk about it, but they know that these two sons are afraid that the old father will give all the money to the stepmother to make up for the stepmother's son.
This old uncle has been very diligent before he got married, although he has never been far away in his life, but he does not want to be idle for a moment, and every day he either goes up to the mountain to chop firewood or works in the field. But since he got married, he has become lazy, occasionally working, and there are women outside the house, and he is also happy to be idle, and he sneaks to the head of the village all day long, watching other people's old men and old ladies fight landlords and chatter.
For this situation, everyone laughed and said nothing, and privately said that this old man understood and didn't want to raise a son for others.
In this way, the aunt is still busy in this new home every day, and she often hears her complaining to the people in the village, saying that her man is too stingy, and he doesn't give money every time he asks for it, and even throws his face, everyone knows that the aunt's life is not easy.
In a blink of an eye, the uncle's eldest son reached the age of marrying a wife, and the aunt's youngest son had successfully entered college.
In the countryside, each family has its own homestead, thinking that the son has reached the age of marrying a wife, and the girl is already optimistic, the old uncle and his two sons privately discussed the old house to tear down the old house and build a new house, the three-room foundation, build two floors, and the brothers have one floor, the old uncle said this as a son, but when he was his second wife, it was another set of rhetoric, he told his aunt that after the house was built, he would leave one floor for the aunt's son. After hearing this, my aunt was very moved and volunteered to participate in the construction of the house and help do what she could.
It's similar to this kind of self-built house
In this way, a family of four, young and old, found a wall builder in the village and started to build a house as much as possible to save money. This aunt is also very hard-working, running to work as a small worker during the day to help carry the mortar, and when it is time to quickly clean up the vegetables and cook, she is busy every day with her feet on the ground, dog days, hot and sweaty, and the aunt is stunned and gritted her teeth and persevered... A few months later, the house was built.
After the new house was built, the eldest son also married a daughter-in-law, and the aunt's youngest son also had a winter vacation and rushed back from school to attend the wedding.
It wasn't a big deal, but the new sister-in-law said with a mocking face that the stepmother and this non-biological brother were outsiders and didn't deserve to live in this house... The uncle's eldest son also came out to stand on his daughter-in-law's side, helping to attack the aunt's youngest son, and the aunt quit, so she quarreled with the uncle's eldest son and daughter-in-law.
The quarrel was inexorable, attracting many onlookers in the village, the public said that the public was reasonable, the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, everyone went to persuade the fight to no avail, there was no way, so I went to let the old uncle make a statement himself... As a result, before the old man could express his position, the old man's second son stopped doing it, raised his eyebrows directly, raised the hoe at the door and shouted: "My father said, this house, my brother and I are one floor apart, I haven't married a daughter-in-law yet, who wants to rob me, I will fight with him..."
When the aunt's son heard this, he glared at his mother fiercely, turned his head and packed his luggage and went back to school, leaving his aunt alone on the ground crying and wiping her tears, but no one dared to go up to persuade her... Everyone in the village looked at each other, and each went back to his own home, all of them were from the villagers, and no one was nosy.
The farce continued until the evening, and the aunt really had no choice, she couldn't find a place to reason, and she was really angry, so she ran to the door of the door of the oldest elder in the village, kneeling and begging the elder to come out and say a fair word... But after kneeling for several hours, this elder never opened the door. As if they had discussed it, the people in the village closed their doors and avoided this aunt like a plague god...
Early the next morning, someone saw the aunt carrying her luggage and getting on the bus to the county seat, no one dared to ask her where she was going, and no one dissuaded the aunt from staying... The old uncle was still sitting at the door and smoking a dry tobacco pouch, and in the kitchen, his son and daughter-in-law were talking and laughing, and no one cared about the whereabouts of the stepmother.
Auntie's departure is six years. When she said goodbye, she was radiant and looked good. Her youngest son came back with her, and she told the villagers that she had gone to the city where her son went to school over the years, found a job as a dishwashing aunt, and accompanied her son to school outside.
The aunt came back this time to talk about divorce with the old uncle, she said that she was too cold to the old uncle's family, so many years, she has no credit and hard work, in recent years, after going out to work, the uncle's family has never taken the initiative to contact her, let alone care about the life and death of their mother, she is now determined to divorce.
But what about the old uncle, if he doesn't agree, it's okay to divorce, let the aunt get 50,000 yuan, which is the living expenses of the aunt in this family a few years ago and the tuition fee for the aunt's son...
The son is about to get married, and the son has bought a house in installments in the county seat, and is preparing to get married, the mother and son really can't come up with so much money, so the divorce matter is also shelved, and the aunt has no choice but to go back to the city with her son.
Later, I rarely heard from my aunt, and some people in the village said that they had met my aunt in the city, and her son married a daughter-in-law in the city, and the daughter-in-law rented a store in the city to sell clothes, and she also had a grandson, and she didn't wash the dishes for others now, so she took her grandson at home every day, and planned to live for a long time.
Bystanders are clear, in fact, my aunt is really a very good person, kind and diligent, but it's a pity that she didn't meet a good man who really treats her hard, maybe this is the pain point of the second marriage, each has calculations, guard against each other, in short, the aunt is also considered to be old and blessed, has a son, and has a dependence, I think, the aunt may be the biggest regret in this life is that she failed to divorce!